Woman's real name is Jennifer Null. She can't do much online, databases reject her lastname. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems …pic.twitter.com/2hQXbP4d1P
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@zeynep Will no one learn the lesson of Little Bobby Tables? https://xkcd.com/327/
@fritzbogott @zeynep ugh, I don't like that I think you're right.
Another case: employee lastname is "Null"; can't search in database. Exactly why is below. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-do-i-correctly-pass-the-string-null-an-employees-proper-surname-to-a-so …pic.twitter.com/Lp5i8KtQaX
@zeynep Ever look at the quoting & legal character rules for strings in SQL & PL/SQL? Baroque to the nth degree, different btw vendors.
@zeynep Not doing parametrized queries, eh?
@zeynep Web2py just made me do this:
if str(request.vars.get('ticket')) != 'None':
@zeynep Fortunately, it's just a minor hack for adding a debugging link to custom error page that will be removed in production.
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